I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 1184 - 856 Negative Life Force_2

Chapter 1184: Chapter 856 Negative Life Force_2

The body still carries the patterns of mountains and rivers, but these patterns differ from those Zheng Yichen saw on the hand of the Ancient Venerable. The patterns from the True Immortals’ hand depicted flourishing prosperity, whereas these people bore the marks of extinction and destruction.

They are not corrupt, but something else entirely, still alive, yet their life force has mutated. It’s not the decay of corruption, but a transformation into negative vitality.

This vitality imbues these individuals with a strong inclination towards destruction. The first ominous individual who approached was pierced through by Zheng Yichen, whose blood was quickly drained dry.

Before it turned to flying ash, it quickly transformed into corruption. Zheng Yichen abruptly halted the devouring; although the ominous still lived, their life force had mutated, but it wasn’t death’s decay, it’s best to leave it be.

One taste and Zheng Yichen felt nauseous.

With Zheng Yichen taking the lead, Qi Xiangyun joined the battle. Though they didn’t fight as easily as Zheng Yichen, the ominous lacked much rationale, making them easier to deal with.

Yet during these battles, the combat blood was absorbed with problematic effects, causing Liu Hongzhao’s eyes to turn red, showing a tendency towards frenzy.

Zheng Yichen immediately tossed the Black Light reversal to them, protecting their mental state and allowing them to fight normally.

As for the impact of this mutated vitality, it wasn’t significantly large; Zheng Yichen had already taken out a few and gained experience, allowing them to continue fighting.

The influence on mental state showed the girls hadn’t perfected their cultivation of the Ice Heart Mantra.

A cluster of gray vitality appeared in Zheng Yichen’s hand, representing the new power the ominous had brought him, apart from the mutated vitality, it also enhanced the performance coefficient.

These ominous were more formidable in terms of performance coefficient than the Wild Ancient natives, otherwise, why would he let Liu Hongzhao and the others risk demonization in battle against them?

This mutated vitality specifically referring to negative vitality, akin to the opposition between death and life, this life force opposed normal vitality, yet it wasn’t the power of death.

Compared to normal life force, negative vitality resembled the fatherly Nurgle among the four Chaos gods in a certain game.

Negative vitality would spread ominous energy, drawing more vitality from the ominous and destruction, generally speaking, normal vitality aims to make the world thrive.

Negative vitality brings chaos and disorder to the world, spreading ominous effects within such chaos, causing living beings to become abnormal, as for plants...

Lilith quickly simulated in the Virtual World; plants affected by negative vitality grew better, but... they would bite.

Normal vitality couldn’t do this, but negative vitality could, such as when someone is near death, and normal means can’t save them, negative vitality could pull them back.

Yet even when dragged back, the person wouldn’t return to normal.

"Not bad." Retrieving this cluster of negative vitality, Zheng Yichen watched Qi Xiangyun’s combat. They urgently required high-quality battles to break through, Zheng Yichen wouldn’t compete for breakthrough opportunities at this time.

He faced no breakthrough issues; it merely required eliminating stronger beings. After initially mastering negative vitality, Zheng Yichen gained clearer perception of the Ancient Venerable.

The Ancient Venerable was watching him.

The gaze brimming with malice made Zheng Yichen uncomfortable, yet it remained within the range where he could adapt.

With Zheng Yichen watching, Liu Hongzhao’s battle turned intensely desperate, exchanging blows on the premise of mutual harm, swiftly clearing the ominous.

Unfortunately, it did not lead to a breakthrough; these ominous were strong, yet ultimately fell short of true immortals, not even demigod-status, transforming into ominous elevated their strength, but higher attributes came with decreased intelligence...

Gain and loss indeed.

"I’ll heal you." Tanshia Firlo floated beside Qi Xiangyun, gently raising a protective sphere, rapidly healing their injuries via the Life Domain.

During the battle, the small white dragon attempted using the Life Domain to suppress the ominous but their negative vitality permeated her domain, leaving several holes.

The gap between domain and Divine Domain remained substantial.

This also highlighted the uniqueness of negative vitality—it significantly impacts normal life force.

Like ink in water, a drop of ink could create a clear mark in water, whereas a drop of water couldn’t clarify ink.

It’s the same, learning the positive is difficult, but sliding into the negative is easy; negative vitality resembles this.

At the foot of Ancient Immortal Mountain, the number of ominous increased, making it unfeasible to observe the trio fight pragmatically, Zheng Yichen led an assault against hundreds of thousands of ominous.

No matter that some ominous were weaker, such sheer numbers made the girls’ involvement risky.

Without Zheng Yichen, their battle with the ominous would inevitably result in disaster.

Blood infused with negative vitality could be absorbed and transformed by their cultivated Blood Asura but the negative impacts were overly strong.

Thus, Zheng Yichen must lead the charge.

His puzzlement lay in the lack of Boundary Breakers so far; those who risked life weren’t playing scrub roles quietly?

Ancient Immortal Mountain.

Li Changsheng stared vacantly at the distance, losing in a gambit against the Boundary Breakers... Despite meticulous preparation, the Unified Imperial Dynasty invested vast resources at Ancient Immortal Mountain.

Several actions took place without the Boundary Breakers’ involvement, with resource usage under close scrutiny, making it impossible for Boundary Breakers to infiltrate.

Comprehensive preparations still led to losing by a single move... Forty-nine True Immortals set up the Fantasy Great Array Formation under him, aimed to corporealize the Ancient Venerable.

The materialized Ancient Venerable would replace the spirit of the Ancient Venerable, merging with the awakened Ancient Venerable, while the Fantasy Great Array Formation under him could infuse the Li family’s bloodline into the Ancient Venerable.

With numerous calculations, Li Changsheng never anticipated the awakened Ancient Venerable was ’alive’, living in an ominous form, their Ancient Venerable shadow didn’t match the designed bloodline infusion.

This mismatch rendered the Unified Imperial Dynasty’s plans for naught, moreover, due to the bloodline infusion effect, Li Changsheng suffered backlash.

It should have been the Ancient Venerable’s protection, which turned into a curse due to this mismatch, as if he meticulously, forcefully added an undiscovered record, or even a known but ignored record into the family archives...

Leaving it out wouldn’t have been a problem, writing it in changed everything.

The Li family’s bloodline suffered from the Ancient Venerable’s ominous curse, with the planning backlash arriving unexpectedly. Fortunately, the curse hadn’t spread through the bloodline thanks to the Unified Imperial Dynasty’s contingency measures.

Ancient Immortal Mountain was isolated, with the torn sky sealed by the Ancient Venerable, preventing the curse from spreading.

After all, Ancient Immortal Mountain was the burial ground of the Ancient Venerable; it formed from the heart of the Ancient Venerable, its inherent powers facilitated this, but such sealing would not last long—at most half a month before Ancient Immortal Mountain’s foundations depleted...

Crack, crack—

Strange sounds echoed; Li Changsheng’s expression turned cold despite seeing nothing. Since the plan for everlasting legacy failed, he prepared for the worst case.

He intended to retain the bloodline curse, avoiding harm to descendants, aiming to preserve at least part if not all here. Utilizing Ancient Immortal Mountain’s other preparations to extract advantageous parts amidst adversity was crucial.

Finally, it came down to judging the backup plan, evaluating the Proxy Agent brought forth by Dusk.